As I understand it, if the Blues' pick is top ten, they have the option to keep that pick and send Colorado their 2012 1st, in return for Colorado's 2012 1st. But if they finish outside the top ten, Colorado gets this year's pick, and the Blues get Colorado's 2011 1st in return. I think.

Guess we'll have to wait until the end of the regular season to see how it shakes down...

I'm sorry WS, I didn't quite get that. You'll have to make yourself more clear.

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Originally Posted by HomaridII

I also vote for A and I vote that we start some kind of in-season pool for the people in on this draft ...

Something that involves long term, keeper league or something like that

I would definitely join a keeper league as a GM with posters in this draft, but there's no way I would have time to run the thing. If anyone would be interested in doing so we could discuss it further.

As I understand it, if the Blues' pick is top ten, they have the option to keep that pick and send Colorado their 2012 1st, in return for Colorado's 2012 1st. But if they finish outside the top ten, Colorado gets this year's pick, and the Blues get Colorado's 2011 1st in return. I think.

Guess we'll have to wait until the end of the regular season to see how it shakes down...

Pretty sure its a 2nd rounder heading towards St-Louis with a 1st rounder going to colorado. The condition is if the blues pick is top ten they have the option of keeping it and switching to 2012 first round pick, in which case the Blues would forfeit the 2011 2nd round pick for colorados 2012 2nd round pick.

In regards to draft picks involved in that trade

Colorado gets: St-Louis 1st round pick (2011 or 2012)
* condition -> If pick is top 10 St-Louis has option to keep 2011 pick and give up the 2012 pick in its stead

What shall we do for conditional picks? Examples being pick 48, 65, 78, 176

Conditional picks suck for mock drafting.

A lot of the conditions are in regards to whether a player re-signs with a team or not. For those I would say we could analyze them case by case and come to a group decision on whether or not the team in question would actually sign that player.

For example: As the Sharks I have a conditional 5th or 6th round pick from the rangers, with the condition being the Rangers signing Jody Shelly. I do not think the rangers will re-sign him, so I should get the 6th instead of the 5th, though if more people think the rangers are going to re-sign Shelly then I will gladly grab the 5th rounder instead

In the case of the 2nd round pick Chicago traded to Ottawa, i think its safe to assume that they will give up the worst of the three picks, so probably their own.

I think what confuses me most is the value of the compensatory 2nd round pick that was awarded to Montreal and was traded to the islanders for Wisniewski.